Originally published: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction / J. Cheryl Exum and Ela Nutu -- Shared glory : Solomon de Bray's Jael, Deborah, and Barak / J. Cheryl Exum -- Love beyond limits : the debatable body in depictions of David and Jonathan / Hugh S. Pyper -- The Biblical Elijah and his visual afterlives / Martin O'Kane -- The imaginative effects of Ezekiel's Merkavah vision : Chagall and Ezekiel in creative discourse -- The song of songs and the enclosed garden of fifteenth-century paintings and engravings of the Virgin Mary and the Christ-child -- Framing Judith : whose text, whose gaze / Ela Nutu -- Visualizing Salome's dance of death : the contribution of art to Biblical exegesis / Christine E. Joynes -- The Bible and the sixteenth-century painter ; Nativity, Way to Calvary and Crucifixion as visual narratives by Michele Tosini / Heidi J. Hornik -- Painting the Gospel : Henry Ossawa Tanner's The Annunciation and Nicodemus / Kelly J. Baker -- William Blake and the New Testament : the perspectives of the pictures / Christopher Rowland -- Index of references -- Index of authors.